Acceptance Criteria Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Acceptance Criteria
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Acceptance Criteria skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Acceptance Criteria 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Acceptance Criteria falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 158 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 91.98% 90.29% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 83 69
10th Percentile £183 £296 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +19.05% -6.67%
75th Percentile £535 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £698 £640
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £433
% change year-on-year - +9.83% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 24
10th Percentile £14.64 £17.34 £22.51
25th Percentile £17.81 £19.00 £25.94
Median hourly rate £27.00 £60.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +14.29% +196.28%
75th Percentile £55.00 £67.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £77.50 £75.00
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £14.22 £16.71 £16.23
% change year-on-year -14.88% +2.93% +11.93%

Acceptance Criteria
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Acceptance Criteria relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Acceptance Criteria job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Acceptance Criteria
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Acceptance Criteria.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Acceptance Criteria

Acceptance Criteria
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
General
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Mortgage Business Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Transformation Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) AI Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CBAP
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow